This partnership of two major blockchain communities could encourage enterprises that are unsure of whether to build their blockchains on EEA’s or Hyperledger’s platforms.

“The enterprises of the world are going to want to purchase solutions where they have a choice of multiple vendors,” EEA Executive Director Ron Resnick told CoinDesk.

Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger’s executive director, told CoinDesk both groups can now work on a reference implementation, described as a software standard from which all other implementations and corresponding customizations are derived. “We think that doing that as a project or a lab at Hyperledger would be interesting,” he said. Read more here.